Is Donald Trump really going to invade Greenland? Well, here's a secret: America already did in 1940, and they never left. I'll tell you a little bit about America's history with Greenland, and if they'll invade again.
00:10:32.200The president has been clear for months now.
00:10:34.340So I know you're treating this as breaking news.
00:10:36.420The president has been clear for months now that the United States should be the nation that has Greenland as part of our overall security apparatus.
00:10:54.840And I'll talk with you about it for an hour.
00:10:56.600I think it's really important conversation.
00:10:57.860I just want to I just wanted to reset, Jake, by making clear that it has been the formal position of the U.S. government since the beginning of this administration.
00:11:06.700Frankly, going back to the previous Trump administration, that Greenland should be part of the United States.
00:11:12.420The president has been very clear about that.
00:11:14.360That is the formal position of the U.S. government.
00:11:16.800Right. But can you say that military action against Greenland is off the table?
00:11:20.640You want to be military action against Greenland.
00:11:22.780The the Greenland has a population of 30,000 people, Jake.
00:11:27.140The real question is, by what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland?
00:11:31.580What is the basis of their territorial claim?
00:11:34.060What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?
00:11:37.380The United States is the power of NATO.
00:11:40.620For the United States to secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO and NATO interests, obviously Greenland should be part of the United States.
00:11:50.060And so that's a conversation that we're going to have as a country.
00:11:52.920That's a process we're going to have as a as a community of nations.
00:11:56.360So you can't take it off the table that the U.S. would use military force to seize Greenland.
00:12:00.880I understand, Jake, I understand you're trying very hard to which which, again, is your job.
00:12:07.140I respect it. It's great to get exactly the headline right.
00:12:10.580That catchy headline trying to get an answer that says that says Miller refuses to rule out the.
00:12:16.920The United States should have Greenland as part of the United States.
00:12:21.660There's no need to even think or talk about this in the context that you're asking of a military operation.
00:12:27.800Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily.
00:12:31.120That's really that's audacious, which is, of course, Trump's middle name.
00:12:36.580And it has offended NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
00:13:43.040But I think it really I mean, Trump, I think, is quite candid in that book.
00:13:47.100And one of the things he talks about is that he, in negotiations, takes an outrageous position that he knows is outrageous to redefine where a normal outcome would be.
00:14:42.400The U.S., like I say, has a base there and really could do what it wants.
00:14:48.620Denmark is a pretty small country with a pretty small military.
00:14:53.120And I really don't think that they would be able to stop America in any way, but neither can they do what America wants to be done, which is have a serious military up there, not just to stop Russian ICBMs, but there's Russian ships and Chinese ships.
00:15:12.000I think some of this is Trump wanting to make history also, whether it was Panama on the Panama Canal or reshaping Latin America with the Monroe Doctrine that he's now calling the Don Road Doctrine.
00:15:23.680I think Donald Trump is in a very unusual place for a president because he was shot at, hit but not killed, because the Democrats did all the lawfare on him, trying to put him in jail and because he won in a miraculous way.
00:15:36.700I think he really thinks that it's a historic presidency and he measures every day by the minute.
00:15:44.920And I think he's trying to do so many things.
00:15:46.620And I think he is looking for a legacy.
00:15:48.540People point out that he, you know, values a state dinner with the King of England and he values being nominated for the Nobel Prize.
00:17:32.780But we're in the age of missiles and anti-missiles.
00:17:35.020And it's just not enough to have that old-fashioned approach.
00:17:38.680Isn't it a fact that Trump is showing that Europe, at the end of the day, is a lot of talk, but can't actually do anything major, strategic, historic?
00:19:00.980Canada, Spain, Norway, Ireland, the countries that had so much to say about the Middle East, none of them were involved in getting the ceasefire done, getting the hostages back or anything.
00:19:40.640But I think that Trump has just decided.
00:19:44.180And I think the reaction to his raid in Karakas and the fact that he pulled off such a military feat, I think he's just decided he wants to be the boss.
00:19:57.360But not some, you know, weak, powerless, impotent, but noisy European politician.
00:20:04.080And I don't know if you saw this, this morning, the United States military raided and seized two tankers that were involved in selling Iranian and Venezuelan oil contrary to sanctions.
00:20:19.740Now, the Russians didn't like this, so they renamed one of the oil tankers, gave it a Russian name, and put it under a Russian flag.
00:20:27.960And they said they were dispatching a Russian submarine to protect him.
00:21:01.460I think that that's unsettling to the littler powers like Denmark, even like Canada and the United Kingdom, because we always thought we were, you know, America was Batman and we're Robin.
00:21:15.800We may be the junior partner, but we're best friends.
00:21:18.340I like that line that Wab Kanu once said, we're not going to be your 51st state, but we'll be your number one friend.
00:21:23.740I thought that was a really sweet line.
00:21:25.620But Canada, you know, there are some people who, for opportunistic reasons, want to whip up Canadian fear of being militarily invaded.
00:21:36.500I don't think that's going to happen, but it'll sell some Toronto stars and it'll worry enough boomers that I think Mark Carney will go up in the polls, at least in Ontario.
00:21:44.680But I try and think about how Canada can deal with Trump.
00:21:56.520They could take our steel industry and our auto industry if they wanted to, and it looks like Trump wants to.
00:22:01.780You can't beat him on a head-on battle.
00:22:06.660But what if Canada were to try something, I'm calling it asymmetrical?
00:22:11.540And hear me out, and you're not going to like this, but what if Canada said to Donald Trump, look, we're not going to be a 51st state.
00:22:19.000You already have access to our oil sands through our Canada-US free trade agreement, so you have full access there.
00:22:25.680You have preferential access, in fact.
00:22:27.620But what if Canada offered Donald Trump a joint base in our north, in our Arctic, up in Inovic, or even further north?
00:22:37.740That's an asymmetrical arrangement that might help us with trade, and if it was a joint base for both American and Canadian soldiers to train together, to work together.
00:22:49.160A recognition that we don't have the budget, the technology, the equipment on our own, but we can work with the Americans as we've worked with them for the better part of a century.
00:22:58.440And before you say, oh, that's a violation of our sovereignty, American military train in Canada, or at least they used to, for example, during Operation Maple Flag.
00:23:07.380That was the exercise of sort of the top gun for NATO countries before we had to shut it down in Alberta because we didn't have planes that worked anymore.
00:23:16.920Canada-US through NORAD both defend the north together.
00:23:20.180As I mentioned the other day, it was American jets that scrambled when there was a problem over a B.C. airport with an unidentified plane.
00:23:30.080The Americans are protecting us right now by having a northern base, a joint base, Canadian forces base, and a U.S. base.
00:23:58.920And before you say, oh, that's selling out our sovereignty, remember that there are U.S. military bases in the United Kingdom, in Italy, in Turkey, in countries all around the world.
00:26:24.000But that's just a tip of the hat to the fact that teachers unions really are radical Marxist organizations designed not only to enrich their members, which we can understand,
00:26:33.920but to proselytize to other people's kids, to disrupt what parents might think, to disrupt what the community might think.
00:26:43.700I think one of the most radical things in your entire story is that three-word motto.
00:26:48.040Yeah, the learn, disrupt, rebuild is essentially, this is unique to the Hamilton-Wentwood District School Board,
00:26:57.020but it's essentially a set of teacher training resources.
00:27:02.380And when I say a set, I mean a very broad set.
00:27:04.900It contains hundreds and hundreds of teacher resource materials to embed social justice education within classes like art, literacy, geography, history, you name it.
00:27:19.500It's how to embed, you know, this intersectional social justice within the education system.
00:27:23.960And it's, I haven't seen this particular approach at other school boards.
00:27:28.060So this is very Hamilton-Wentwood District School Board orientated.
00:27:30.940And the interesting thing about Learn, Disrupt, Rebuild is it's been going on for several years,
00:27:37.920but in the last few years, they added on to it and they added this Islamophobia training.
00:27:44.320And it goes pretty much from primary to, I haven't seen any secondary, but certainly primary level, elementary level.
00:27:53.460And yeah, it's essentially treating religion as race.
00:28:03.740Canada has had an anti-Semitic crime wave for the last two years.
00:28:07.560And I mean actual crimes, trespass, mischief, uttering threats, vandalism.
00:28:12.000And we see it every weekend when pro-Hamas mobs, almost always foreign, foreign-directed, scream at Jews in my own neighborhood, in Toronto.
00:28:22.200And, but what the schools are teaching is not anti-Semitism, but Islamophobia, when in fact, it's overwhelming the amount of anti-Semitism.
00:28:32.320But the focus in the schools is Islamophobia.
00:28:35.640And they have all sorts of lesson plans.
00:28:37.500I'm just going to read one from page six of your story.
00:28:40.180At least that's the page count when I print it out.
00:28:44.340This is one of the thought experiments the kids have.
00:28:47.120A group of kids see Wahaj's grandmother bring him his lunch.
00:28:52.480They tease her and call her ninja lady because she wears a burqa, a veil that covers her face.
00:28:59.300Well, if you're a kid, a Canadian kid from almost any background, and you see someone covered head to toe, I'm talking full, not just a head wrap like a hijab, but the actual face obscuring black cloth, that is not normal.
00:29:17.600That's not normal in most parts of the world.
00:29:20.140In fact, it's banned in many Muslim countries.
00:29:22.460And I, I'm not surprised that a kid would say that looks like a ninja, not even in a hateful way.
00:29:29.660Just, this is such an astonishing sight to seem, but that is taught as Islamophobia.
00:29:35.340You cannot have a reaction to someone dressed, by the way, not even a second's thought to how women are treated and what it means that a woman cannot feel sunlight on her face.
00:29:46.860And a woman has to be, you know, living in, in such a subordinate condition.
00:29:50.940And that's just one of a hundred examples in your story of what is being taught to children of tender years.
00:29:57.380Yeah, it seems to be a normalization of the introduction of religion into the education system, which is actually supposed to be secular.
00:30:06.140And even though the learn, disrupt, rebuild, teach resource package has hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lessons.
00:30:12.980As far as I can tell, Islam is the only one treated in this particular intersectional social justice way.
00:30:23.520You don't see it for Hinduism or anything else.
00:30:25.900Although there's a slight mention of those within the Islamophobia documents, I guess, comparing them.
00:30:30.800But they're really treating religion as a racial category to kind of fit it into the diversity, equity and inclusion, which is how education is sort of being transformed.
00:30:41.660So I have some concerns about that, about some of the aspects of religion being normalized within education when Canada has typically been a Christian country.
00:30:52.540And those are being downplayed all the time.
00:30:54.940I have so many stories, even just this Christmas, about how you can't talk about Christmas.
00:32:40.700I think there's a lot of extremism within the education system.
00:32:44.140A lot of it certainly is coming from from the unions, from what I can tell.
00:32:47.640But we're not the issue with turning this into DEI, a race category and all this stuff, is that we're going to struggle to be able to criticize this and keep the education system secular.
00:32:57.460And there are issues with within Islam, some fundamentalism, extremist issues.
00:33:04.640They tend to be ignored or whitewashed.
00:33:07.340Another story that I had not too long ago was how the Ontario curriculum in world religions includes a teacher prompt about jihad being a personal struggle and a misunderstood concept.
00:33:20.760But never, ever discussing any of the fundamentalist or extremist outcomes of some of that, you know, terrorist attacks.
00:33:27.800So it feels like there's a whitewashing here by implementing it within diversity, equity and inclusion pipelines.
00:33:34.520And that does I worry about that because any sniff of anything fundamentalist from other religion, particularly Christian religion, is definitely pounced upon by the very same unions that you were discussing now.
00:35:16.460Whenever I write a story, I constantly am asking the ministry of education what their views are, if they support these sorts of things.
00:35:22.300And I would love to get some answers from them on that, actually.
00:35:25.060Now, across Canada, there are Catholic school boards that presumably, or perhaps historically, taught a Catholic point of view.
00:35:35.960And this was an interesting constitutional concession when you had two founding nations.
00:35:42.520You know, Catholic education was hardwired into Canada's historical constitution going back 250 years.
00:35:49.540Are the so-called Catholic school boards in Ontario, are they going down this Islamist path, too?
00:35:58.240Is this same kind of learn, disrupt, rebuild ideology infecting what should be Catholic schools?
00:36:06.720So I actually, the reason I've got these documents is because this year I started putting an awful lot of access to information requests to a whole bunch of school boards, both Catholic and public, to try to find out what their diversity, equity, and inclusion training was.
00:36:19.540And I have seen a little bit from the Catholic board.
00:36:23.920I think it was actually the Halton Catholic board.
00:36:26.480And I don't remember any Islamophobia documents in there.
00:37:01.240And as soon as I know more information on that, I will be publishing everything that I find out.
00:37:05.760And that includes the Catholic boards.
00:37:07.220But in terms of Islam and Islamophobia, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that's of any particular concern with the Catholic boards.
00:37:14.300The fact that you say a so-called conservative government has an equity secretariat right there.
00:37:20.400I mean, all sorts of alarm bells should be going off.
00:37:23.520You know, I remember a few years ago, there was a schoolgirl who wore a hijab who had a press conference and all the national media were in attendance.
00:37:31.700And she said she was walking to school and a man accosted her with scissors, she said, and cut her hijab.
00:37:43.100And I remember she said it was an Asian man.
00:37:47.160And I thought, did an Asian man just happen to have scissors on him and go up to a girl walking to the school in the morning with a hijab and carefully cut the hijab in a way that didn't poke or injure the girl?
00:38:40.240And it's because this supply and demand, there is such a demand for proof of Islamophobia, but there's no supply.
00:38:49.060You know, despite everything, Canada has accepted the mass immigration of Muslim people, including some who dress up like, yes, like ninjas.
00:38:58.820And there just isn't the hate crime wave.
00:39:01.580Canadians are not easily riled like that.
00:39:04.640And so you saw this liar and her wicked family concocting a hoax to smear, in that case, the Asian community.
00:39:13.300I should tell you, Melanie, that that tweet from Justin Trudeau remains up to this day, that he has not taken down the lies.
00:39:23.680That's how this whole thing feels to me, is that there isn't a wave of anti-Islamic Islamophobia or discrimination in Canada.
00:39:31.620There just isn't, especially proportionately.
00:39:34.020But this is designed to just see Smollett it, to hope this whole thing is a hoax.
00:39:39.660Yeah, I can add to that, actually, which is like it's not really to do with the low disruptory bill.
00:39:43.920But the National Council for Canadian Muslims is very involved in developing Islamophobia, anti-Islamophobia strategies and action plans for numerous school boards in Ontario and also recently Manitoba.
00:39:58.740And at the Durham District School Board recently, they just released another one.
00:40:05.880And within it, they have a dedicated, I guess you could call it like a snitch line.
00:40:10.660So, it's training on how to perceive things as Islamophobia and then teaching kids how then to report this with the NCCM.
00:40:19.220So, it does feel like there's not enough supply.
00:40:25.180And so, you need to find more complaints, right?
00:40:27.520So, we need to up the amount of complaints because when you compare it to the number of incidents against Jews in this country since the October 7th Hamas attacks, they're massive.
00:40:38.120And, you know, I can't help but think if that's a reason why they need snitch lines in these anti-Islamophobia strategies.
00:40:43.760Yeah, you know what, I occasionally check out a Canadian government website that lets you search grants by any keyword, including the, I think you mentioned the NCCM, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, which is a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
00:40:58.840And they receive tens of millions of dollars, cumulatively, to generate this stuff, to generate these curriculums and inject them straight into the school boards.
00:41:10.860By the way, so do the trans movement and so does various, pretty much if there's an activist group out there, you can bet they're getting grants from the federal government to create this fake reality that we're living in some horrific war of all against all.
00:41:29.760I think we've had some real problems over the last two years.
00:41:32.180We've turned a blind eye to professional agitators, but it's, there's not an anti-trans crime wave.
00:41:39.880There's not an anti-Muslim crime wave in Canada, despite the government attempts to fake one.
00:41:46.860Is there any, is there any end to this?
00:41:49.540I mean, I can imagine once this stuff is in the curriculum, you'd have to dynamite it to get it out.
00:41:55.740Yeah, that's a really difficult question because these things are not only embedded, but they're increasingly so.
00:42:02.120It's becoming a larger and larger priority to transform education for social justice.
00:42:07.140And this involves the Ontario Human Rights Commission, obviously the Ministry of Education, the teachers unions, the teachers colleges, as in the universities, the Ontario College of Teachers, which regulates teachers.
00:42:17.700So there are many, and also the activists involved with education.
00:42:23.360I did a calculation of grants and lobbying databases, and I calculated that NCCM received over $750,000 from the Ministry of Education here in Ontario to develop these anti-Islamophobia strategies.
00:42:36.860So, and this is since 2018, the calculation.
00:42:40.620So, you know, there is a lot of interest in maintaining the social justice element of education.
00:42:47.720So it's going to be very, very difficult to get it out.
00:42:49.560And I think that would require a lot of repealing of a lot of these things.
00:42:55.340I would like to see it start with the Ministry of Education, with Paul Calandra, possibly even talking about getting rid of the Education Equity Secretariat, which actually has only been in place since 2017.
00:43:06.180It's brand new, and most people don't even know about it.
00:44:48.080I don't know if you saw this, but in the last 24 hours, Donald Trump made a startling announcement.
00:44:53.480He's banning large corporations from buying up homes.
00:44:57.660I don't know if you know this, but there are some huge companies, including BlackRock,
00:45:01.280that buy up thousands and thousands and thousands of American homes and then rent them out.
00:45:08.440And they just inject so much capital into the U.S. real estate market that it raises prices and it distorts the market.
00:45:16.220And you could say, well, that's capitalism.
00:45:18.080Well, today Donald Trump said that's not allowed anymore.
00:45:20.540In fact, I saw the stock price of some of these mega companies plummet today because their whole business model is Donald Trump says he's going to block it.
00:45:28.800So my point is saying that is that Donald Trump is going to Davos, and they care about ideology, but they also care about getting rich over there.
00:45:35.720Larry Fink is really one of the bosses.
00:45:53.540But I think Trump is going to be fairly well received there.
00:45:57.060Not ideologically, but everyone wants some of that American money.
00:46:00.080Another letter from Annette Gignac, who says, we never did find out where our $400 million went with the SDTC scandal.
00:46:11.000You know, I got to tell you, I don't know where the SDTC scandal is without looking it up.
00:46:15.540I just read your letters live, and I respond to them.
00:46:18.180But a $400 million scandal in Canada these days is almost a small scandal.
00:46:25.040I mean, the amount of money that Ontario and federal governments gave to different electric vehicle battery companies is literally 100 times that amount.